Ethiopian cuisine has been brought to Wellington by former refugees. SAPEER MAYRON reports on the latest in a string of eateries. The post LISTEN: Capital’s foodies embrace Ethiopia appeared first on NewsWire.co.nz.

Claims of 9 years of undervaluing and underfunding teachers are behind a series of meetings around the country this week. The meetings, run by New Zealand Educational Institute Te Riu Roa, offer teachers and principals a chance to discuss pressing issues such as teacher shortages and inadequate resources. National Executive member Liam Rutherford says change […]

This is a couple of months old but Commodify Me! would like draw your attention to a story which appeared in the Otago Daily Times in May about the New Zealand Stock Exchange and its chief executive Mark Weldon.

The Dominion Post has a story about what the impact and cost of tackling climate change will have on New Zealand:

The cost of doing our bit in the battle against climate change will be $27 a week each by 2020 as the Government prepares to sign Kiwis up to a global pact.

But it is under fire for being too cautious after setting the target of a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of between 10 per cent and 20 per cent on 1990 levels and there are warnings that New Zealand risks being labelled a climate-change bludger. READ MORE.

The newspaper also has another story with comment from various business leaders about the proposed reductions of greenhouse gas ommissions as part of the country’s Kyoto Protocol agreements. READ HERE.

There’s an interesting story in Rolling Stone magazine by Matt Taibbi about how former investment bank Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.

While Commodify Me! would thoroughly recommend that you read all of Taibbi’s story, the parts that will interest commodity exchange fanatics the most are page five, which details how Goldman’s speculation in the oil markets drove the price at the pump to record highs last year, and page seven, which examines how the bank could potentially make a killing of another product that looks set to be traded on the U.S. futures exchange, carbon credits.